Showing posts with label Big. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2012

ABC News / HSUS Tennessee Walking Horse Expose Brings Soring Case to National Attention

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video platform video management video solutions video player ABC News broadcast a hidden-camera video this week, exposing the at-ho...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Familiar Feet in the Derby Week Crowd?

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by Fran Jurga | 30 April 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog The Onion website is reporting that 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown has ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Big Brown's Famous Hooves Find a New Kentucky Home

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Posted on Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog | 10 November 2008 Guess who? The most famous feet in the horse world touched down on their new Kentuc...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Heel Bulb Injuries 101: Big Brown's Latest Hoof Malady

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Earlier today this blog provided details about the heel bulb injury that predicated the disappointing retirement of champion three-year-old ...

Iavarone: Big Brown Was Barefoot; Injury Not Related to Toe Grabs

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I was fortunate to be on a conference call this afternoon with Michael Iavarone of IEAH, managing partner owners of Triple Crown star Big Br...

Bye Bye, Big Brown: Champion Colt Retired After Foot Injury During Training in New York

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Today was the day he booked his van ride to Kentucky. Champion three-year-old colt Big Brown limped home from a work at New York's Aqued...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Big Relief: Big Brown Wins Haskell Invitational at Monmouth, Shoes Still Glued

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I guess he can hold his head high again. Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (and Belmont also-ran) Big Brown returned to form this afterno...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Hoof-La Update from Dutrow: "It Still Wasn't the Loose Shoe"

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Smoking Gun? The article in this week's Blood-Horse about Big Brown's loose shoe in the Belmont, shown in this closeup from a Russ M...

Beating a Dead Horse(shoe): Big Brown's Loose Shoe, Revisited

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Photo links to ESPN's article on hind shoe revelation. In the hours after Big Brown failed to win, or even really finish, the Belmont St...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Big Brown's Part Owners Pledge Drug-Free Stable After October 1st

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Here's a statement issued today by International Equine Acquisitions Holdings (IEAH), the partnership that is part owner of Kentucky Der...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Friends at Work: Father's Day Off

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Today is Father's Day in the USA, and perhaps other places in the world. By coincidence, I think, I received an email today from my frie...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Big Brown's Trainer Called to Testify Before Congressional Investigative Committee

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The New York Times is reporting this morning that Rick Dutrow, the trainer of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, will testify ...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Big Brown's Owner Says Loose Hind Shoe "Not An Issue"

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The Blood-Horse is quoting one of Big Brown's owners, Michael Iavarone of IEAH, this morning: "His feet are ice cold, quarter crack...
Monday, June 02, 2008

Event Wrapup: UPenn Technical Horseshoeing Symposium at New Bolton Center

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2008 speakers at the University of Pennsylvania's Technical Horseshoeing Conference: (left to right) Course organizer and UPenn resident...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Triple Crown "Crack"down: Update from Ian McKinlay on Big Brown's Latest Hoof Malady

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This device from Holland was marketed in Europe for stabilizing quarter cracks on Standardbreds. This photo shows clearly what a typical qua...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Nike Signs Big Brown to $90 Million Horseshoe Contract: Onion Makes Light of the Triple Crown Hoof Madness

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The article that was posted here on Sunday has been deleted because too many people took it too literally. Click here to read this article o...

Big Brown Really Does Have a Quarter Crack This Time

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According to Ian McKinlay on Sunday night, this horse's crack would be similar to the one that Big Brown has. It's 12 days to the de...

Quarter Crack Repair: What Lies Ahead for Big Brown?

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This video by Ian McKinlay explain the steps he goes through to "patch" a quarter crack so a horse can continue to train and race....
Friday, May 16, 2008

Big Brown's Big Switch: New Shoes, New Heels for Tomorrow's Preakness

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This morning, I stumbled out onto the lawn and grabbed the paper before the sea gulls could target it (or me). Once inside, I propped the pa...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Still Thinking About Eight Belles? Leading Vet Hogan Suggests That Thoroughbreds Could Learn A Lot From Standardbreds

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Dr. Patty Hogan in surgery Carol Hodes, former media relations director for the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, has ...